An all-women team of smartphone-toting, low-caste reporters who chronicle India’s hardscrabble heartland may give the cinema-mad country its first Oscar-winning film, after their own story became a critically lauded documentary. The journalists of “Khabar Lahariya” (Waves of News) have built a huge following across Uttar Pradesh, a northern state with […]
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When Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh were pitching the idea for “Writing With Fire,” the filmmakers discovered they would have to expand on their description of the project. The documentary tracks the heroic efforts of an all-female news operation — the only one of its kind in India — as […]
By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Google is investing up to $1 billion in a major Indian telecom company, a move it hopes will drive down the cost of smartphones in a huge and rapidly expanding market. Google said in a statement Friday that it would invest $700 million in Bharti […]
Apple Inc has asked India’s antitrust watchdog to throw out a case alleging abuse of market power in the apps market, saying it is too small a player in the South Asian country where Google is dominant, a filing seen by the Reuters news agency shows. The filing was made […]
© M. Sriram Rash decisions, insecurity and burnout: The dark side of India’s startup funding boom Chaitanya Ramelingegowda feels nothing. His company, Sequoia-backed mattress startup Wakefit just had its best month- Rs 100 crore of revenue in October alone, in addition to closing previously unplanned $30 million funding round at […]
(Reuters) – Boeing Co may win an order as early as this weekend for about 70 to 80 737 MAX jets from Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s startup Akasa Air, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. A deal could be announced during the Dubai Airshow, which […]
(Reuters) – Boeing Co may win an order as early as this weekend for about 70 to 80 737 MAX jets from Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s startup Akasa Air, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. A deal could be announced during the Dubai Airshow, which […]
An Aeromexico Boeing 737 MAX 9 cockpit is pictured at the Benito Juarez International airport, in Mexico City, Mexico, July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Luis Cortes/File Photo Nov 11 (Reuters) – Boeing Co (BA.N) may win an order as early as this weekend for about 70 to 80 737 MAX jets from […]
With its $2.46bn target, Paytm, backed by Ant Group, SoftBank, Berkshire Hathaway, will be India’s biggest IPO. India will see its biggest-ever initial public offering with digital payments platform Paytm looking to raise nearly $2.5bn, in what has already been a record year for share listings Paytm is backed by […]
(Corrects to say Ola, not Ola Electric, in headline, lede and para 2, clarifies to say electric unit in para 3) NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Ola plans to produce kick scooters, e-bikes, drones and even flying cars under its future mobility scheme to help meet the country’s transport needs, […]